Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 26, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 saturday free july july is Tornado month in Manitoba statistics by Manfred Jager and Leah Janzen science its Tornado season on the but you dont have to Tell Glenda Archibald yesterday Archibald and her son were mowing the Lawn at her farm near Killarney when she heard a loud rumble in the there were these funny Low she the noise continued for almost 10 a Veteran Archibald knew it was time to head Home to avoid the at the she looked up to see a funnel emerging from the swirling Cloud just a Kilometre or two from her i took my son Down to the base ment for a she it passed Over but my son was a Little Archibald was just one of the Many Southern Manitoban who experienced some wild and woolly weather Over the last few on severe Thunder storms produced baseball sized Hail in the southwestern Corner of the province and Farmers in the area reported severe damage to some environment Canada officials said a Tornado touched Down North of thursday it uprooted two one of which fell on the 1991 Ford Tempo of cot tag owner Irene severely damaging there were no funnel Clouds were also reported from Portage la Myrtle and Carman late thursday thursdays storm doused the town of Carman with 42 Millimetres of Steinbach and Emerson each received 17 Millimetres while Winnipeg Only had storm activity continued with funnel Clouds reported near Killarney and several More East of Winnipeg near environment Canada officials said Only one Tornado touched Down near the White Shell provincial but no damage was Manitoba experiences an average of nine tornadoes per but Patrick the severe weather program manager at environment Canada says so Many of them strike in uninhabited and unframed areas that two or three out of every four Are never noticed or most tornadoes occur Between 3 and 10 but they can happen at any time of the Day or Canada ranks second in the world after the United states for Tornado Between 80 and 100 Torna does strike in Canada every compared to about in the Between 30 and 50 Canadian Torna does touch Down in the in tornadoes have struck As far North As a few have actually occurred in the Northwest on july a weak Tornado struck the causing several Hun dred thousand dollars of damage and a few minor most Manitoba tornadoes occur in the Southern part of the the Winnipeg area has been struck 14 times in the last 130 most of the 14 tornadoes were causing Little soon after Midnight on june a series of tornadoes struck Between Portage la Prairie and win killing five people and causing million damage in Portage and More than in other major tornadoes occurred in Buck Bay last in Birtle in near Winkler in in Claude in 1984 and in Rosa in most tornadoes occur Between 3 and 10 but they can happen at any time of the Day or by and tornadoes Are Between 50 and 100 metres wide and last Between five and 10 for Winnipeg and Southern Manito the annual Tornado season starts in it ends in computer calculations show that the Chance of a Tornado hitting Winnipeg is per cent in per cent in per cent in per cent in per cent in August and per cent in septem meteorologists add up the risk numbers for each month and the resulting whole season risk of a Tor Nado strike on Winnipeg thus stands at per cent for the six month As for past experience from funnel Clouds and actual touchdowns Between 1960 and the scientists say the so called return time for tornadoes Here is one Tornado every 18 in we had our last one on july a twister touched Down first in then moved through fort vital and where it ran out of breath near in rails Symington tornadoes travel at speeds Between 30 and 50 Kilometres per but some have been clocked at 120 Kilometres per John Curran Leland Mcfadden Are pleased to Welcome Catherine Dale As an associate in the specially practice of Oral Maxill facial surgery new patients Welcome Boyd medical Centre 902388 Portage Avenue Telephone 9571226 fax 9436658 doctors making House Calls pm phones 7864444 not for life threatening emergencies services covered by Misc the birth of a Tornado i off bus at Fourn few wifi amps vary Gir Fly Fott this air files and 6f a Cap cl6ud up draft warm air the momentum of the vortex or Mes Cyclone generates sufficient strength to extend a funnel below the Cloud base to the the funnel spins at tremendous picking up debris and dust in its a Tornado generally occurs at the rear of a drawing its strength from colliding warm and cold Tornado storm direction source storm Magazine super cells spawn strongest twisters a by Manfred Jager science reporter which often produce heavy Strong winds and even Torna Start forming when warm humid air rises from the ground in what meteorologists Call because of wind Speed and the up drafts Start turn ing with increasing lifting Mois Ture up to 15 Kilometres above the temperatures at that level can Range from minus 30 degrees celsius to minus 45 degrees on the hottest sum Mer Vapour carried up from the humid air layers near the ground turns into tiny ice they begin to fall and Are caught in the up draft vortex and carried aloft again where they receive a new layer of ice from moisture in the the fledgling hailstones fall and Are caught up once the process can repeat itself Many times and hailstones As Large As Ait v free Inholt estimates uni City mall vital Kildonan place 41a3605 Square shopping Portage 845 Dakota Centre 9569899 9569894 6541328 9569898 toll free scientists have Cut through such stones in refrigerated laboratories and counted Cross Section rings indicating How Many times a Given Hailstone went up inside a thunderstorm system before finally falling to the stones fall As Hail either when they Are carried to the Edge of the vortex where they wont be lifted again or when they become too heavy to be car ried by the vertical air meteorologists say that funnel which become tornadoes when they touch the ground and pick up actually Start forming inside the up draft vortex of rising moist the most dangerous thunderstorms form As so called while Ordinary thunderstorms Are reach their peaks and die within an hour or super cell thunderstorms can last for sometimes called Stead state Thun they Are the most organized kind of thunderstorm and the most dangerous because they spawn the strongest during their a super cell can travel More than 400 Kilometres across the developing one Tor Nado after the thunderstorm that hit Manitoba thursday was based on a yesterday it was still going Strong and dumped 70 Millimetres of rain on some parts of Wisconsin and forecast h Many colors sizes 35 saving up to limited supplies Sargent at Berry 7866957 t sunny All umbrella screen to Mlp Lavimodiere at Grassie 6543847 Tell us what you think of no fault insurance the Manitoba Public insurance corporation began its personal injury Protection plan Pipp March commonly referred to As no fault it is designed to guarantee compensation for All automobile Accident victims based on 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